Literary Agencies
Agents can switch agencies at any time. This list is meant as a reference only, not as fact. Check out Agentquery.com for agent information, or better yet, go to each agency’s website and read their agents’ bios.
| AGENCY | NUMBER OF AGENTS |
| Sterling Lord | 16 |
| Writers House | 15 |
| International Creative Mgt (ICM) | 13 |
| Trident Media | 13 |
| Folio Lit | 11 |
| William Morris | 11 |
| Curtis Brown | 10 |
| Fine Print | 9 |
| Foundry + Media | 9 |
| Levine Greenberg | 9 |
| Zachary Shuster Harnsworth | 9 |
| DeFiore | 8 |
| Dystel & Goderich | 7 |
| Fletcher | 7 |
| Inkwell | 7 |
| Jane Rotrosen | 7 |
| Janklow & Nesbit | 7 |
| Sanford J Greenburger | 7 |
| Brandt & Hochman | 6 |
| David Black | 6 |
| Don Congdon | 6 |
| Donald Maass | 6 |
| Knight | 6 |
| Liza Dawson | 6 |
| Georges Borchardt | 5 |
| Gernert | 5 |
| Jean Naggar | 5 |
| John Hawkins | 5 |
| Kneerim & Williams | 5 |
| L. Perkins | 5 |
| Manus | 5 |
| McIntosh & Otis | 5 |
| Waxman | 5 |
| Aaron M. Priest | 4 |
| Andrea Hurst | 4 |
| Donadio & Olson | 4 |
| Dunow, Carlson & Lerner | 4 |
| Frances Goldin | 4 |
| Gelfman Schneider | 4 |
| Harvey Klinger | 4 |
| Irene Goodman | 4 |
| Judith Ehrlich | 4 |
| Lippincott Massie McQuilkin | 4 |
| Markson Thoma | 4 |
| Park | 4 |
| Prospect | 4 |
| Regal | 4 |
| Scovil Galen Ghosh | 4 |
| Victoria Sanders | 4 |
| Wylie | 4 |
| Alive Communications | 3 |
| Books and such | 3 |
| Carol Mann | 3 |
| Castiglia | 3 |
| Friedrich | 3 |
| Harold Ober | 3 |
| Hartline | 3 |
| Helen Rees | 3 |
| Howard Morhaim | 3 |
| JABberwocky | 3 |
| Jill Grinberg | 3 |
| Larsen Pomada | 3 |
| Linda Chester | 3 |
| Loretta Barrett | 3 |
| Miller | 3 |
| Movable Type | 3 |
| Nancy Yost | 3 |
| PMA | 3 |
| Russell & Vokening | 3 |
| Sandra Dijkstra | 3 |
| Sarah Jane Freymann | 3 |
| Susan Golomb | 3 |
| Veritas | 3 |
| Wendy Weil | 3 |
| Abrams Artists | 2 |
| Amy Rennert | 2 |
| Anderson | 2 |
| Artists and Artisans | 2 |
| Bent | 2 |
| Blumer | 2 |
| Book Ends | 2 |
| Bradford | 2 |
| Brick House | 2 |
| Browne & Miller | 2 |
| Caren Johnson | 2 |
| Cooke | 2 |
| Cornerstone | 2 |
| Cowles | 2 |
| Darhansoff & Verill | 2 |
| Denise Shanon | 2 |
| Elaine English | 2 |
| Elaine Koster | 2 |
| Elizabeth Kaplan | 2 |
| Emma Sweeney | 2 |
| Frances Collin | 2 |
| Full Circle | 2 |
| Gersh Agency | 2 |
| Hill Nadell | 2 |
| Jennifer DeChiara | 2 |
| Jennifer Lyons | 2 |
| Jenny Bent | 2 |
| Joelle Delbourgo | 2 |
| Kimberly Cameron | 2 |
| Laura Dail | 2 |
| LJK | 2 |
| Lowenstein | 2 |
| Marianne Strong | 2 |
| Marly Rusoff | 2 |
| Marsal Lyon | 2 |
| Nancy Coffey | 2 |
| Ned Leavitt | 2 |
| Nelson | 2 |
| Nicholas Ellison | 2 |
| Paradigm | 2 |
| Richard Henshaw | 2 |
| RLR | 2 |
| Sheree Bykofsky | 2 |
| Signature | 2 |
| Spectrum | 2 |
| Spencerhill | 2 |
| Stephanie Tade | 2 |
| Strothman | 2 |
| Stuart Krichevsky | 2 |
| Talbot Fortune | 2 |
| Wolf | 2 |
| Woodserve | 2 |
| Writers’ Representatives | 2 |
| Denise Marcil | 1 |
| Ahearn | 1 |
| Aitken Alexander | 1 |
| Angela Rinaldi | 1 |
| Ann Edelstein | 1 |
| Ann Rittenberg | 1 |
| April Eberhardt | 1 |
| Aragi | 1 |
| Arthur Greene | 1 |
| Avenue A | 1 |
| Axelrod | 1 |
| Ayesha Pande | 1 |
| Barbara Braun | 1 |
| Barer | 1 |
| Betsy Amster | 1 |
| Blecher Street | 1 |
| Bob Mecoy | 1 |
| Book Cents | 1 |
| Damaris Rowland | 1 |
| Daniel | 1 |
| Davis Wager | 1 |
| Diana Finch | 1 |
| Doe Coover | 1 |
| Dreisbach | 1 |
| DSM | 1 |
| Dunham | 1 |
| Elyse Cheney | 1 |
| Emilie Stewart | 1 |
| Ethan Ellenberg | 1 |
| Evan Marshall | 1 |
| Fairbank | 1 |
| Faith Childs | 1 |
| Faye Bender | 1 |
| Felicia Eth | 1 |
| Fischer-Harbage | 1 |
| Fountain | 1 |
| Fox | 1 |
| Frederica Friedman | 1 |
| Gina Maccoby | 1 |
| Helen Zimmermann | 1 |
| Irene Skolnick | 1 |
| Jane Chelius | 1 |
| Jeff Herman | 1 |
| Jill Grosjean | 1 |
| Joanna Pulcini | 1 |
| Joy Harris | 1 |
| Judith Riven | 1 |
| Kathryn Green | 1 |
| Ken Sherman | 1 |
| Kirsten Neuhaus | 1 |
| Kraas | 1 |
| Larry Weissman | 1 |
| Laura Gross | 1 |
| Laura Langlie | 1 |
| Lescher & Lescher | 1 |
| Lindstrom | 1 |
| Literary and Creative Artists | 1 |
| Lynne Rabinoff | 1 |
| Lyons | 1 |
| MacGregor | 1 |
| Malaga Baldi | 1 |
| Maria Carvainis | 1 |
| Marie Brown | 1 |
| Martha Kaplan | 1 |
| Martha Millard | 1 |
| Mary Evans | 1 |
| Max | 1 |
| McGinniss | 1 |
| McIntyre | 1 |
| McVeigh | 1 |
| Mendel | 1 |
| Meredith Bernstein | 1 |
| Mildred Marmur | 1 |
| Miriam Altshuler | 1 |
| Mortimer | 1 |
| Nancy Stauffer | 1 |
| Natasha Kern | 1 |
| Northern Lights | 1 |
| Objective | 1 |
| Patricia Moosbrugger | 1 |
| Paul S. Levine | 1 |
| Paula Balzer | 1 |
| Pavilion | 1 |
| Philip Spitzer | 1 |
| Plains | 1 |
| Priot | 1 |
| Psaltis | 1 |
| Rebecca Strong | 1 |
| Rees | 1 |
| Renee Zuckerbrot | 1 |
| Richard Curtis | 1 |
| Richard Parks | 1 |
| Robert Astle | 1 |
| Robin Straus | 1 |
| Roslyn Targ | 1 |
| Sally Hill McMillan | 1 |
| Scribblers House | 1 |
| Serendipity | 1 |
| Seymour | 1 |
| Steinberg | 1 |
| Steve Laube | 1 |
| Straus | 1 |
| Stuart | 1 |
| Susan Schulman | 1 |
| Tessler | 1 |
| Tracy Brown | 1 |
| Triada US | 1 |
| Unter | 1 |
| Van Haitsma | 1 |
| Veltre | 1 |
| Vicky Bijur | 1 |
| Wales | 1 |
| Weed | 1 |
| Wendy Schmalz | 1 |
| Wendy Sherman | 1 |
| Wm Clark | 1 |
| Wolfson | 1 |
| Zoe Pagnamenta | 1 |
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